And from what I've seen it can be really hard to get on an oil rig without either landing on top of it with a helicopter or having someone crane you up (either via a larger boat with a crane or from the rig itself). It's not like you can just climb up, and the platform is often REALLY high off the water (10 stories?).
It might actually be dangerous close to the rig due to submerged obstacles you can't see and/or wave action smashing you against the rig.
I haven't bothered to even read the Wikipedia entry on it, but does Torx provide some magical anti-strip ability that other drive systems don't (square/robertson drive, etc)? I can pretty easily snap square drive fasteners hanks with a power driver without ever stripping the head. It has to be more involved (or at least require better tooling) to make torx heads on fasteners than square drive.
Hex drive is the one I wish would go away. E-Z to strip, and the really small sizes are often indistinguishable from Torx.
Since ERP is critical to many organizations, all we need now is a homeland security tie-in and anyone who complains about how shitty their ERP package is gets hauled off for interrogation.
They still have private armies -- the Chinese government, in order to keep its army fed and the party in power, is more than willing to use the labor camp and the AK-47 to pacify labor to satisfy the needs of the capitalists.
No, you're seeing totalitarianism gone wild. All of the shitty labor in China is backstopped by the government and its willingness to create political prisoners.
What really sucked about the Olympics wasn't the smog or anything else, it was the media broadcasting the fake news that China is just another free country. And the west sucked it down.
Even Steamboat was kind of crowded. I never have been to Vail for that reason, and Summit County is kind of the strip mall of skiing.
I live in MN and we have no real skiing here. Once in a blue moon I go hit the local ski "mounds" (call 'em hills is an insult to hills), but the ice and the 30 second runs usually spoil it for me. Lutsen north of Duluth can be halfway reasonable, but about half the time its -10F and ALL of the lifts, even on the Moose "Mountain" side are like 1940s speed.
Deer Valley is nirvana because I'm now an old fart (over 40) and I don't have the legs or skills for powder or bumps, there's no snowboarders, and the food is really good.
About the only Colorado place that interests me anymore is Snowmass.
I'd gladly pay double (and generally do!) to ski Deer Valley than most crowded places in Colorado.
I love the LDSers -- they run a clean operation and they don't let their religion get in the way of fun for tourists (I've NEVER had a problem drinking in Park City or SLC).
Could it have been the result of a knowledgeable outsider?
I'm way too lazy to re-read the "story" description, but IIRC it said "some" Tuscon subscribers. Is it possible that someone could have physically hacked into some neighborhood/regional distribution box and injected other programming onto a channel?
I know its trivial to buy a box that allows you to selectively replace CATV channels with your own (for home media distribution). It's not a real over stretch of the imagination to think that while "everyone" is drunk watching football, two intrepid young men rip into some big grey box in some alley and hook up their own equipment and jack into cable system.
And that's the wrong conclusion to reach from Iraq.
The right conclusion is "Don't stage an insurgency. The Americans will be glad to rip your country apart and leave it that way. Better to cooperate (ala Germany) and have the Americans invest like crazy vs. just wanting to pull out and leave the mess to you."
Iran has smart people. Don't they know that gaining nukes won't really move their ball forward? North Korea hasn't suddenly gained new respect on the world stage.
They must know that any attempt by Iran to use their nukes or even seriously threaten US national security interests with them will result in Obama being given the choice of glassing over Persia permanently or causing the Democrats and African Americans to FOREVER be labeled weak and ineffective on national defense.
The last time a Democrat wavered on Iran the Republicans reclaimed the presidency for 20 of the next 28 years and redefined politics in America. They won't let that happen again.
I don't know whether a GDrive service would easily be usable (eg, removable disk type drive mapping on PCs), but wouldn't you just naturally put a Truecrypt volume onto whatever GDrive had to offer? Would you ever consider putting unencrypted files on it?
Don't give them too much credit. Now that the petrodollar tap has been turned off, Putin is terrified of any real decline in standard of living. Like China, authoritarianism works on a population accustomed to it and enjoying a rapidly rising standard of living. Manufacturing brought this to China, and oil exports (and some raw materials exports) brought this to Russia.
With the collapse in oil prices and raw materials demand, Putin is in a tough spot. His currency sucks and they've wasted a ton of money trying to defend the ruble, pissing away a lot of their foreign currency reserves in the process. The stock exchange has been closed down a number of days due to declines.
If a bad global economy wasn't enough, the little tete-a-tete they had with Georgia made a lot of nervous investors even more nervous and they pulled a lot of resources out of Russia fearing all the usual problems that come with a nationalist thug like Putin.
We've seen what the USSR could accomplish as a go-it-alone economy, and it wasn't enough. Having a nominally capitalist system will help, but Putin needs to stop with the saber rattling and the blind nationalism.
IMHO, if you make it capable of looking like XP -- *identical*, don't force any of the our-designers-and-experts-say-this-is-better-for-you new GUI on people -- then it will succeed. Most people don't know or care a whole lot about new internals, they just don't want to go through hell for a week/month/whatever re-learning how to do stuff they already know how to do. Or, more appropriately, how to work around idiocies forced on them by "experts" who know better.
I was pretty stunned when Win 7 beta looked and smelled just like Vista, despite whatever under the hood changes were made, and it couldn't be made to work like XP from a GUI perspective.
Instead, MS will not supply an XP GUI for Win 7, will cut everyone off in the harshest manner from XP, and wonder why people remain pissed and them and suspect the motivation is just to sell more shit.
Can someone explain to me why MS doesn't win by releasing one "loaded" version at some low price ($49 or something)?
The low price would work against people who might be inclined to pirate it to get some more "loaded" version, one version without artificial limitations would make it easier to support both at the end-user organizational level as well as at Microsoft level, as well as promoting a unified, less bullshit-enhanced image for Windows 7 as compared to Vista, which was an incomprehensible Medusa of marketing and phony choices.
I work for a SMB VAR and the XP home/pro split actually loses business for Microsoft when customers with a half dozen or so XP home PCs decide whether they want something like SBS and we tell them it will have limitations with XP home clients. They don't want to buy new XP licenses for the same hardware already running XP Home on low-cost boxes bought retail, but they have to if they want domain mebership and some of the gee-whiz features that come with it. They often opt out of the SBS option because they have Home and can't join machines to the domain. Seldom does anybody spring for more than 1-2 XP Pro licenses to clean up the XP Home installs.
Thus, MS loses SBS sales and almost never gets XP Pro upgrades from XP Home, either. Stupid. If there was only one version, I can think of at least 5 customers off the top of my head that would have spent money on servers & OS licenses.
I can live with the "Server" and "Desktop" OS differences, which are probably just as artificial as Home/Pro desktop if you think about it. Those seem legitimate or at least based around rational reasons and purposes. But it would be nice to rid ourselves of the Pro, Deluxe, Media Center, etc. subdivisions within each category.
My experience is that amongst people with a high level of education (PhD-level, say) there are plenty of people I wouldn't trust to make various decisions for me.
Wasn't it William F. Buckley who said that he'd rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the Boston phone directory than the faculty of Harvard University?
Uhh, if the government pays a salary of $100,000 and then collects $30,000 in taxes, you can't say that not paying the salary is a loss of $30,000 in taxes. It's a gain of $70,000 via not paying the salary to begin with.
You're not creating wealth by taking the $100,000 from other people as taxes and then giving it to the worker. Claiming his spending represents a positive economic activity is kind of silly, since the money was already taken from other people.
Repeat after me: government does not create wealth. Even if it makes some men wealthy.
Government can only create wealth if it gets into the business of making & selling something, which is generally a bad idea for all kinds of reasons, e.g., socialism doesn't work.
I was mostly assuming a custom device. Hand held wind speed devices have existed for years. Mounting/integrating one on a GPS would be easy, as would a laser range finder.
Mine has an altimeter to indicate elevation, separate from GPS derived elevations (which it will also use/display). That means you could derive barometric pressure.
If you had a GPS unit with a laser range finder, you could easily calculate the elevation delta between your location and the spot X yards away using internal map data or some kind of trigonometry based on the angle of the path to the target.
And sorry about the typo, but a GPS is handy for directions, and my PN-40 will display color sat imagery or other custom raster maps, which might make more sense.
I largely assumed that this was the trend -- integrate a laser ranegfinder, upload your ballistic info or use the canned data in the scope, and you get digital data overlay in-scope. It can't be all that long that we get the all-digital scope where the image is entirely digital and not an overlay on an optical image.
I personally think that if they were going to mount something this big on the rifle to use as a ballistics calculator, a GPS with an integrated rangefinder would make much more sense. The GPS could provide elevation deltas between the shooter and the target, barometric pressure, wind speed, and so forth, not to mention being kind of handing for directions..
Anyway, I thought Real Snipers (TM) could do mil-dot calculations in their head.
They're all like that. Hubris, luck or whatever, these small business people assume they know everything.
At the end of the day, I could give a shit if they get hacked and the business suffers. It's really not my problem. They want to run their business their way and its their prerogative. I don't tell them who to extend credit to, which employees to keep or can, etc (although I do tell them if their coffee sucks).
I let them do whatever they want, but outline in writing why I think some things are a bad idea and make sure they get a copy and that I have reasonable proof they have seen my objections. In a couple of limited cases I've had to tell them either they do X differently or I won't support them if it stops working, or the support will be "scheduled" as opposed to drop-everything.
When I first started doing small biz consulting this drove me nuts, and I wanted to apply all the usual best practices, but it rubs most small biz owners wrong and in many cases just isn't economically viable (ie, nobody will pay for the hours necessary to do it right).
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And from what I've seen it can be really hard to get on an oil rig without either landing on top of it with a helicopter or having someone crane you up (either via a larger boat with a crane or from the rig itself). It's not like you can just climb up, and the platform is often REALLY high off the water (10 stories?).
It might actually be dangerous close to the rig due to submerged obstacles you can't see and/or wave action smashing you against the rig.
HP still favors Torx on their server products.
I haven't bothered to even read the Wikipedia entry on it, but does Torx provide some magical anti-strip ability that other drive systems don't (square/robertson drive, etc)? I can pretty easily snap square drive fasteners hanks with a power driver without ever stripping the head. It has to be more involved (or at least require better tooling) to make torx heads on fasteners than square drive.
Hex drive is the one I wish would go away. E-Z to strip, and the really small sizes are often indistinguishable from Torx.
No, HRM and CRM are just ERP modules.
Since ERP is critical to many organizations, all we need now is a homeland security tie-in and anyone who complains about how shitty their ERP package is gets hauled off for interrogation.
Don't laugh, I'm only about 3% joking about this.
They still have private armies -- the Chinese government, in order to keep its army fed and the party in power, is more than willing to use the labor camp and the AK-47 to pacify labor to satisfy the needs of the capitalists.
No, you're seeing totalitarianism gone wild. All of the shitty labor in China is backstopped by the government and its willingness to create political prisoners.
What really sucked about the Olympics wasn't the smog or anything else, it was the media broadcasting the fake news that China is just another free country. And the west sucked it down.
Your solution is called a compound bow.
Totally silent and you will solve the problem.
Even Steamboat was kind of crowded. I never have been to Vail for that reason, and Summit County is kind of the strip mall of skiing.
I live in MN and we have no real skiing here. Once in a blue moon I go hit the local ski "mounds" (call 'em hills is an insult to hills), but the ice and the 30 second runs usually spoil it for me. Lutsen north of Duluth can be halfway reasonable, but about half the time its -10F and ALL of the lifts, even on the Moose "Mountain" side are like 1940s speed.
Deer Valley is nirvana because I'm now an old fart (over 40) and I don't have the legs or skills for powder or bumps, there's no snowboarders, and the food is really good.
About the only Colorado place that interests me anymore is Snowmass.
"Greatest Snow On Earth" and they're right.
I'd gladly pay double (and generally do!) to ski Deer Valley than most crowded places in Colorado.
I love the LDSers -- they run a clean operation and they don't let their religion get in the way of fun for tourists (I've NEVER had a problem drinking in Park City or SLC).
I'd really like to talk to a sincere (non-bandwagon) Obama supporter and ask if this is really what they wanted and how it represents change.
I'd be thrilled to hear just one admit that the hype was hype and that reality won't be anything like it.
No popup for me, but I don't allow Slashdot to run scripts!
How about providing a GUI at the console for management and interacting with VM consoles without a seperate computer?
Let's add in SATA and USB support while we're at it and then I can run ESXi on my laptop. I just might wet my pants if that happens.
Could it have been the result of a knowledgeable outsider?
I'm way too lazy to re-read the "story" description, but IIRC it said "some" Tuscon subscribers. Is it possible that someone could have physically hacked into some neighborhood/regional distribution box and injected other programming onto a channel?
I know its trivial to buy a box that allows you to selectively replace CATV channels with your own (for home media distribution). It's not a real over stretch of the imagination to think that while "everyone" is drunk watching football, two intrepid young men rip into some big grey box in some alley and hook up their own equipment and jack into cable system.
And that's the wrong conclusion to reach from Iraq.
The right conclusion is "Don't stage an insurgency. The Americans will be glad to rip your country apart and leave it that way. Better to cooperate (ala Germany) and have the Americans invest like crazy vs. just wanting to pull out and leave the mess to you."
Iran has smart people. Don't they know that gaining nukes won't really move their ball forward? North Korea hasn't suddenly gained new respect on the world stage.
They must know that any attempt by Iran to use their nukes or even seriously threaten US national security interests with them will result in Obama being given the choice of glassing over Persia permanently or causing the Democrats and African Americans to FOREVER be labeled weak and ineffective on national defense.
The last time a Democrat wavered on Iran the Republicans reclaimed the presidency for 20 of the next 28 years and redefined politics in America. They won't let that happen again.
I don't know whether a GDrive service would easily be usable (eg, removable disk type drive mapping on PCs), but wouldn't you just naturally put a Truecrypt volume onto whatever GDrive had to offer? Would you ever consider putting unencrypted files on it?
Don't give them too much credit. Now that the petrodollar tap has been turned off, Putin is terrified of any real decline in standard of living. Like China, authoritarianism works on a population accustomed to it and enjoying a rapidly rising standard of living. Manufacturing brought this to China, and oil exports (and some raw materials exports) brought this to Russia.
With the collapse in oil prices and raw materials demand, Putin is in a tough spot. His currency sucks and they've wasted a ton of money trying to defend the ruble, pissing away a lot of their foreign currency reserves in the process. The stock exchange has been closed down a number of days due to declines.
If a bad global economy wasn't enough, the little tete-a-tete they had with Georgia made a lot of nervous investors even more nervous and they pulled a lot of resources out of Russia fearing all the usual problems that come with a nationalist thug like Putin.
We've seen what the USSR could accomplish as a go-it-alone economy, and it wasn't enough. Having a nominally capitalist system will help, but Putin needs to stop with the saber rattling and the blind nationalism.
IMHO, if you make it capable of looking like XP -- *identical*, don't force any of the our-designers-and-experts-say-this-is-better-for-you new GUI on people -- then it will succeed. Most people don't know or care a whole lot about new internals, they just don't want to go through hell for a week/month/whatever re-learning how to do stuff they already know how to do. Or, more appropriately, how to work around idiocies forced on them by "experts" who know better.
I was pretty stunned when Win 7 beta looked and smelled just like Vista, despite whatever under the hood changes were made, and it couldn't be made to work like XP from a GUI perspective.
Instead, MS will not supply an XP GUI for Win 7, will cut everyone off in the harshest manner from XP, and wonder why people remain pissed and them and suspect the motivation is just to sell more shit.
Can someone explain to me why MS doesn't win by releasing one "loaded" version at some low price ($49 or something)?
The low price would work against people who might be inclined to pirate it to get some more "loaded" version, one version without artificial limitations would make it easier to support both at the end-user organizational level as well as at Microsoft level, as well as promoting a unified, less bullshit-enhanced image for Windows 7 as compared to Vista, which was an incomprehensible Medusa of marketing and phony choices.
I work for a SMB VAR and the XP home/pro split actually loses business for Microsoft when customers with a half dozen or so XP home PCs decide whether they want something like SBS and we tell them it will have limitations with XP home clients. They don't want to buy new XP licenses for the same hardware already running XP Home on low-cost boxes bought retail, but they have to if they want domain mebership and some of the gee-whiz features that come with it. They often opt out of the SBS option because they have Home and can't join machines to the domain. Seldom does anybody spring for more than 1-2 XP Pro licenses to clean up the XP Home installs.
Thus, MS loses SBS sales and almost never gets XP Pro upgrades from XP Home, either. Stupid. If there was only one version, I can think of at least 5 customers off the top of my head that would have spent money on servers & OS licenses.
I can live with the "Server" and "Desktop" OS differences, which are probably just as artificial as Home/Pro desktop if you think about it. Those seem legitimate or at least based around rational reasons and purposes. But it would be nice to rid ourselves of the Pro, Deluxe, Media Center, etc. subdivisions within each category.
My experience is that amongst people with a high level of education (PhD-level, say) there are plenty of people I wouldn't trust to make various decisions for me.
Wasn't it William F. Buckley who said that he'd rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the Boston phone directory than the faculty of Harvard University?
...or maybe that will be his new career. They could use a man of his honesty in that field.
Uhh, if the government pays a salary of $100,000 and then collects $30,000 in taxes, you can't say that not paying the salary is a loss of $30,000 in taxes. It's a gain of $70,000 via not paying the salary to begin with.
You're not creating wealth by taking the $100,000 from other people as taxes and then giving it to the worker. Claiming his spending represents a positive economic activity is kind of silly, since the money was already taken from other people.
Repeat after me: government does not create wealth. Even if it makes some men wealthy.
Government can only create wealth if it gets into the business of making & selling something, which is generally a bad idea for all kinds of reasons, e.g., socialism doesn't work.
I was mostly assuming a custom device. Hand held wind speed devices have existed for years. Mounting/integrating one on a GPS would be easy, as would a laser range finder.
Mine has an altimeter to indicate elevation, separate from GPS derived elevations (which it will also use/display). That means you could derive barometric pressure.
If you had a GPS unit with a laser range finder, you could easily calculate the elevation delta between your location and the spot X yards away using internal map data or some kind of trigonometry based on the angle of the path to the target.
And sorry about the typo, but a GPS is handy for directions, and my PN-40 will display color sat imagery or other custom raster maps, which might make more sense.
I largely assumed that this was the trend -- integrate a laser ranegfinder, upload your ballistic info or use the canned data in the scope, and you get digital data overlay in-scope. It can't be all that long that we get the all-digital scope where the image is entirely digital and not an overlay on an optical image.
I personally think that if they were going to mount something this big on the rifle to use as a ballistics calculator, a GPS with an integrated rangefinder would make much more sense. The GPS could provide elevation deltas between the shooter and the target, barometric pressure, wind speed, and so forth, not to mention being kind of handing for directions..
Anyway, I thought Real Snipers (TM) could do mil-dot calculations in their head.
They're all like that. Hubris, luck or whatever, these small business people assume they know everything.
At the end of the day, I could give a shit if they get hacked and the business suffers. It's really not my problem. They want to run their business their way and its their prerogative. I don't tell them who to extend credit to, which employees to keep or can, etc (although I do tell them if their coffee sucks).
I let them do whatever they want, but outline in writing why I think some things are a bad idea and make sure they get a copy and that I have reasonable proof they have seen my objections. In a couple of limited cases I've had to tell them either they do X differently or I won't support them if it stops working, or the support will be "scheduled" as opposed to drop-everything.
When I first started doing small biz consulting this drove me nuts, and I wanted to apply all the usual best practices, but it rubs most small biz owners wrong and in many cases just isn't economically viable (ie, nobody will pay for the hours necessary to do it right).